Focusing on the year 1851, when the completion of the Crystal Palace seemed to mark the height of Victorian Britain's...
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Focusing on the year 1851, when the completion of the Crystal Palace seemed to mark the height of Victorian Britain's success, this website asks viewers to decide for themselves whether life in Britain was really as wonderful as contemporary accounts suggest. Sections on working conditions, health issues, poverty, public safety, and gender equality thus seek to reveal less celebrated aspects of Victorian society.Interactive activities and a final quiz-like game allow viewers to test their recall after viewing the site.

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According to the "Project Overview," Digital Durham "offers students, teachers, and researchers a range of primary sources...
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According to the "Project Overview," Digital Durham "offers students, teachers, and researchers a range of primary sources with which they can investigate the economic, social, cultural, and political history of a post-bellum southern community.״ These include a variety of letters written by elite members of the community, as well as ״entries from Atlas Rigsbee's general store ledger [that] together with data from the 1880 census provide a view into the social experience of those Durham citizens who have not left written documents. Taken together the new materials on Digital Durham touch on over 600 topics including African American business enterprise, the emergence of textiles, tobacco production and marketing, child labor, prohibition, evangelical revivalism, nineteenth-century medical practices, women's experience of childbirth, and public and private education.״The site has six main pages: ״Home," "Project Overview," "Browse Collection,״ ״Reference," "Teachers' Corner," and "In the News.״ The "Teachers' Corner contains a general introduction into using the searchable census material on the site along with two lesson plans, one designed for fourth grade and one for eighth grade. On the "Reference" page, there are links to ״The Geography of the Piedmont Region," a ״Glossary of terms used in the 1880 census of Durham, North Carolina," and "Census Help .״ "In the News" has links to articles discussing the Digital Durham Project. People can browse the collection using the Library of Congress Subject Headings or by eight main categories, including maps, business records, personal papers, and photographs. Users can also search the collection.

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The Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia (PROE) is an educational project of the Fundación Puertorriqueña de las...
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The Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia (PROE) is an educational project of the Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades (FPH). This electronic bilingual (Spanish and English) publication fulfills the Foundation's purpose to meld the humanistic tradition with technology. As a non-profit institution affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the FPH has worked constantly for 30 years to further our commitment to the values of Puerto Rican culture. Authoritative information is provided on this site regarding all aspects of Puerto Rico, including the experience and achievements of Puerto Ricans on the island and elsewhere. The users of this Encyclopedia will have the opportunity to learn about the details of Puerto Rican history, organized in 21 topics, including a special section on the Puerto Rican Diaspora. The history and photographs of the cultural routes pertaining to the 78 municipalities of the island, as well as articles and multimedia galleries on the different aspects that define us as a culture, are included throughout the different sections. The audiovisual resources that are included in these pages are from the FPH collections and different historical archives in Puerto Rico.

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Archaeologists and historians rediscover a famous nineteenth-century New York neighborhood, the Five Points district. Named...
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Archaeologists and historians rediscover a famous nineteenth-century New York neighborhood, the Five Points district. Named for the points created by the intersection of Park, Worth, and Baxter streets, the neighborhood was known as a center of vice and debauchery throughout the nineteenth century. The archaeological excavation of the Foley Square courthouse block provided the opportunity to examine the physical remains of life in this infamous place. This virtual exhibit begins to tell the story of what was found. Through the study of the artifacts recovered in 1991, the daily lives of the people who lived at Five Points become visible. A team of 17 archaeologists, conservators, and historians is analyzing the 850,000 artifacts recovered from the Foley Square courthouse block. Out of the analysis comes a richer story about the working-class residents of Five Points, the neighborhood's reputation as New York's most notorious slum, and its overcrowded tenement neighborhood teeming with newly arrived immigrants struggling to succeed in an alien city. This virtual exhibit includes artifacts from 4 of the 22 excavated features.

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This University of Arizona web exhibit chronicles the history of the Sisters of Carondelet. Among the pioneers that came to...
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This University of Arizona web exhibit chronicles the history of the Sisters of Carondelet. Among the pioneers that came to Tucson in the 1870's were seven Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. They opened a school next to San Agustin Church for the children of Tucson and three years later one for the native American children at the San Xavier Mission. Later the parochial school was put under the direction of the Sisters and an orphanage was begun. In 1880, they took in the first patients at St. Mary's Hospital caring for the sick and injured of the Southern Pacific Railroad, County patients, and all who came. This World Wide Web exhibit offers a digital history and tribute to the Sisters' contributions in Tucson and the region.

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Hidden Lives Revealed focuses on the period 1881-1918, and includes unique archive material about poor and disadvantaged...
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Hidden Lives Revealed focuses on the period 1881-1918, and includes unique archive material about poor and disadvantaged children cared for by The Waifs and Strays' Society. The Society cared for children across England and Wales

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According to the site's homepage, "Historic Pittsburgh is a comprehensive collection of local resources that supports...
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According to the site's homepage, "Historic Pittsburgh is a comprehensive collection of local resources that supports personal and scholarly research of the western Pennsylvania area. This Web site enables access to historic material held by the University of Pittsburgh's University Library System, the Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Chatham College Archives, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, and Point Park University Archives.״ The collection is divided into seven basic parts. In the "Full-Text Collection," users can search or browse more than a thousand "books published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.״ There are five series of maps available, although some of these are still being loaded onto the site. There are more than 11,000 images available for searching or browsing. There are searchable census records for 1850 through 1880. A chronology covers Pittsburgh's history from 1717 to 2008. For those in the area, it also has a collection of archival finding aids and the catalog of Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania (HSWP) at the History Center.In addition, there are links from the homepage to "News" (announcements of updates for the site), ״For Teachers" (two suggestions for how the site might be used by middle school teachers), ״About״ (which gives the history of the project and the names of all the institutions involved), ״FAQ,״ ״Related Sites," and "Site Map.״

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This University of Arizona web exhibit traces the history of the railway in the region. In the late nineteenth...
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This University of Arizona web exhibit traces the history of the railway in the region. In the late nineteenth century, Tucson was a growing town with a strong desire to project a metropolitan image. One key to continued development was the establishment of dependable public transportation to move Tucsonans around their newly bustling city. This is the story of the first streetcar line: the horse-drawn Tucson Street Railway.

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